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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
	peterz@infradead.org, ak@suse.de, clameter@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] cpusets: do not allow TIF_MEMDIE tasks to allocate globally
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 01:00:02 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070606010002.2ff6fc98.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070606005610.a8c783ce.pj@sgi.com>

On Wed, 6 Jun 2007 00:56:10 -0700 Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> wrote:

> David wrote:
> > That is, unless you can guarantee this type of problem will not happen again
> 
> Well, I certainly cannot guarantee that.

The only place I can think of where the kernel will sit there allocating
huge amounts of memory like this is in readahead.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-06  8:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-05 22:39 [patch] cpusets: do not allow TIF_MEMDIE tasks to allocate globally David Rientjes
2007-06-05 22:40 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-05 22:42   ` David Rientjes
2007-06-05 23:01 ` Paul Jackson
2007-06-05 23:16   ` David Rientjes
2007-06-05 23:19     ` Paul Jackson
2007-06-05 23:20     ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-05 23:25       ` David Rientjes
2007-06-05 23:32         ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-05 23:44           ` David Rientjes
2007-06-05 23:55             ` Paul Jackson
2007-06-06  1:17               ` David Rientjes
2007-06-06  1:20                 ` Paul Jackson
2007-06-05 23:57             ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-06  1:23               ` David Rientjes
2007-06-06  1:32                 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-06  1:40                   ` David Rientjes
2007-06-06  1:54                     ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-06  3:29                       ` David Rientjes
2007-06-06  6:20 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-06-06  6:42   ` David Rientjes
2007-06-06  7:09     ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-06-06  7:18       ` David Rientjes
2007-06-06  7:34         ` Paul Jackson
2007-06-06  7:39           ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-06  7:48           ` David Rientjes
2007-06-06  7:56             ` Paul Jackson
2007-06-06  8:00               ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-06-06  8:03                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-06-06  7:56             ` Peter Zijlstra

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